:00:13. > :00:16.Hello, this is BBC World News, our top stories: The South African
:00:16. > :00:22.athlete Oscar Pistorius is formally charged with the premeditated
:00:22. > :00:25.murder of his girlfriend as his bail hearing continues.
:00:25. > :00:33.Mourners attend the funeral of Reeva Steenkamp in her home city of
:00:33. > :00:39.Port Elizabeth. We have to keep Reeva in our hearts
:00:39. > :00:44.forever, and by her passing away, make a change in our lives of many
:00:44. > :00:47.people. A computer security company says a
:00:47. > :00:52.Chinese military unit based in Shanghai is behind a series are of
:00:52. > :00:55.cyber hacking attacks. Armed robbers in Belgium smash-and-
:00:55. > :01:05.grab that the international airport, they get away with diamonds worth
:01:05. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:22.Hello. Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been warned that he
:01:23. > :01:26.faces the harshest possible restrictions it is given bail while
:01:26. > :01:30.he awaits trial for murdering his girlfriend. He is charged with
:01:30. > :01:34.premeditated murder. He has been in court this morning in Pretoria.
:01:34. > :01:38.Reports from within the courtroom suggest he stopped during much of
:01:38. > :01:41.the hearing, which is about whether he will remain in custody until he
:01:41. > :01:45.stands trial. Prosecutors told the court that he fired several shots
:01:45. > :01:49.through a bathroom door in his own, killing Reeva Steenkamp. His
:01:49. > :01:52.defence team say he thought she was an intruder. The family of the
:01:52. > :01:59.victim have held a private funeral this morning in Port Elizabeth. Ben
:01:59. > :02:02.Ando as more. This is a bail hearing, lawyers for
:02:02. > :02:05.Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade
:02:05. > :02:09.Runner, believe he should be allowed to remain at home until he
:02:09. > :02:14.goes on trial accused of murdering his girlfriend, the model Reeva
:02:14. > :02:17.Steenkamp. The athlete's sister was in court to support him. In his
:02:18. > :02:23.last appearance in court in Pretoria, he broke down in tears as
:02:23. > :02:28.he was accused of murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. In
:02:28. > :02:31.court, at the prosecutors said that Pistorius, a double amputee, got up,
:02:31. > :02:37.put on his cross-species and walked seven metres and fired his gun
:02:37. > :02:42.through the bathroom door. He fired four shots, three hit Miss
:02:42. > :02:45.Steenkamp. The athlete's defence suggest he had mistaken her for a
:02:45. > :02:51.burglar. Some believe his celebrity status means he should be allowed
:02:51. > :02:56.bail. Everybody knows who he is, it is not as if he can hide or get a
:02:56. > :02:59.passport and run away overseas without anybody noticing. In my
:02:59. > :03:03.mind, I would suggest that the fact that he is a well-known person
:03:03. > :03:06.might count in his favour in this instance. The court appearance
:03:06. > :03:14.comes on the same day as Reeva Steenkamp's funeral in Port
:03:14. > :03:22.As her private funeral got under way, her alleged killer, Oscar
:03:22. > :03:26.Pistorius, waited to hear whether Just picking up from those pictures,
:03:26. > :03:33.after the funeral, Reeva Steenkamp's brother made a brief
:03:33. > :03:39.statement outside the chapel. Everyone is sad, understandably. At
:03:39. > :03:42.certain points, we were smiling, remembering Reeva. Because we only
:03:42. > :03:47.have good memories of her, and I think that is what we were all
:03:47. > :03:51.thinking. Now, a US-based computer security
:03:51. > :03:57.company says it believes the Chinese military is behind a series
:03:57. > :04:01.of high-level cyber hacking attacks. The company, Mandiant, says that
:04:01. > :04:04.his 12 storey tower block in Shanghai is actually the
:04:04. > :04:07.headquarters of a global hacking operation. Mandiant says it has
:04:07. > :04:10.pinpointed a secretive unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as
:04:11. > :04:15.the most likely source of the attacks, which have lifted data
:04:15. > :04:19.from a whole range of industries, mostly in the United States. The
:04:19. > :04:25.Chinese foreign ministry says the accusations are groundless and
:04:25. > :04:31.based on rudimentary data. Well, with me now is the BBC security
:04:31. > :04:35.correspondent Gordon Corera. You have the report here. Rudimentary
:04:35. > :04:38.data, is it? Fascinating report, one of the most detailed I have
:04:38. > :04:42.ever seen in terms of attributing where these attacks have come from.
:04:42. > :04:44.We have known for years that significant attacks have been
:04:44. > :04:49.launched and have been tried to steal data, everything from
:04:49. > :04:52.intellectual property, the designs of things, to negotiating
:04:52. > :04:57.strategies, government secrets. It has always been suspected that
:04:57. > :05:01.China was in some way behind this. The Chinese, as you said, have
:05:01. > :05:05.denied it. What is so interesting about this report is that they have
:05:05. > :05:11.gone right down into the detail and looked at one particular unit of
:05:11. > :05:14.the Chinese military, Unit 61398. They have looked at its location
:05:14. > :05:19.and the location where these cyber attacks have come from, and they
:05:19. > :05:21.have said it is the same place, that tower-block, these are the
:05:21. > :05:29.locations where you can see the links. They have even tracked some
:05:29. > :05:36.of the people they think Ah'm not, you can see some of their names,
:05:36. > :05:40.Ugly Gorilla, one of the pen names. -- they think are involved. So they
:05:40. > :05:44.are pretty confident that they know where they are heading. What sort
:05:44. > :05:49.of effect the thing these attacks are having? What sort of
:05:49. > :05:51.information are they getting? it is very interesting, a mixture
:05:51. > :05:55.of old-fashioned commercial information, the secrets to
:05:55. > :05:59.designing something, whether it is the secret recipe of Coca-Cola or
:05:59. > :06:02.the design of a new jet fighter. Then there is negotiating positions
:06:02. > :06:07.that might be used, government information that they are after.
:06:07. > :06:10.There was a famous attack by this group where they got hold of the
:06:10. > :06:14.security keys which cut the government and others used to
:06:14. > :06:18.secure their data. It was a means of getting that kind of information.
:06:18. > :06:23.So it is a real spectrum of information over a long period.
:06:24. > :06:28.What is fascinating, in his report, it talks about the hackers being
:06:28. > :06:31.inside one network for four years and 10 months, four years and 10
:06:31. > :06:35.months working their way around a computer network, being able to
:06:35. > :06:40.steal information. A massive amount of time. I suppose, in a way, what
:06:40. > :06:44.is the upshot of this? What is the sanction? What can be done next?
:06:44. > :06:48.Everyone has known about this problem for years, but governments
:06:48. > :06:51.are very cautious about pointing the finger at China, partly because
:06:52. > :06:56.there is this problem of proving it definitively. In the cyber world,
:06:56. > :07:01.you can try to mask the real art, and it is very difficult to be
:07:01. > :07:05.absolutely sure. And they are worried about economic links. There
:07:05. > :07:09.is an issue for governments, and on the whole they have been reluctant
:07:09. > :07:13.to say explicitly that they think it is China, and China, of course,
:07:13. > :07:17.denies it. It says hacking is illegal, and they say, we get
:07:17. > :07:21.hacked, which is no doubt true as well, their corporations and
:07:21. > :07:24.government debt hack as well. But we are seeing a move towards people
:07:24. > :07:29.being more open, and this report is very interesting, because even
:07:29. > :07:32.though it is private sector, not the US government, a private sector
:07:32. > :07:37.organisations saying, here is the detail, that will start a debate
:07:37. > :07:41.about, well, if the detail is there, what do we do about it? For all
:07:41. > :07:47.they can say, we have not done this, if they are all at it, that is not
:07:47. > :07:52.much of an excuse either. No, and so do governments say, we will do
:07:52. > :07:56.it back you? You end up in a war in cyberspace. There is a real debate
:07:56. > :08:01.about how you put rules in place, how you agree norms which stop
:08:01. > :08:05.people being willing to act in certain ways. Very challenging.
:08:05. > :08:09.The world's largest food maker, ness Lake, has withdrawn two types
:08:09. > :08:16.of ready meal from sale in France and Italy after tests uncovered
:08:16. > :08:19.traces of horsemeat. -- mislays. It says that the lasagne and spaghetti
:08:19. > :08:23.meals contained meat supplied by German firms.
:08:23. > :08:27.It is a scandal that has engulfed Europe and refuses to go away. One
:08:27. > :08:31.week after the world's biggest food maker said that its products were
:08:31. > :08:35.clear, confirmation that some of its exports also contained traces
:08:35. > :08:41.of horsemeat. Ministers meeting in Paris had some good news for the
:08:41. > :08:44.company. It had been accused of labelling horsemeat as beef.
:08:44. > :08:48.Representatives from Spanghero, the company at the heart of the
:08:48. > :08:53.controversy, were told some operations could restart after all
:08:53. > :08:57.work was suspended. While Spanghero denies all accusations, the French
:08:57. > :09:00.government stands by its claims, but with most of the company's
:09:00. > :09:07.stock now tested and cleared, it conceded hundreds of unwitting
:09:07. > :09:12.workers should not be penalised. TRANSLATION: We have two objectives,
:09:12. > :09:15.to guarantee consumer security and to allow workers to resume their
:09:15. > :09:19.activities. They are not responsible for the fraud. In the
:09:19. > :09:22.Netherlands, authorities have raided more than 100 businesses,
:09:22. > :09:26.trying to establish whether fraudulent labelling had taken
:09:26. > :09:29.place. German officials have banned to tighten controls on meat
:09:29. > :09:35.products and enforce stronger penalties for companies that
:09:35. > :09:39.violate the rules. TRANSLATION: We do expect more cases to be
:09:39. > :09:43.uncovered, and that is why these controls are being put in place, to
:09:43. > :09:47.get everything on the table, and in particular to resolve this. With
:09:47. > :09:50.the extent of the scandal still widening, it is clear Europe's
:09:51. > :09:55.complex relationship between meat suppliers, producers and
:09:55. > :09:58.distributors has failed its consumers. What is less clear now
:09:58. > :10:08.is how to ensure that what is inside Europe's meat products
:10:08. > :10:11.Now, armed robbers in Belgium have crashed through the perimeter fence
:10:11. > :10:17.of the international airport in Brussels and made away with
:10:17. > :10:23.diamonds worth around $50 million. Belgian officials say that they
:10:23. > :10:29.were maxed gunmen. -- mast. They snatched the Jules as they were
:10:29. > :10:34.being loaded onto a plane. They did find one of the vans bent out quite
:10:34. > :10:38.close to the airport. There you are, there is the proof. Audacious is
:10:38. > :10:46.the work. Duncan Crawford joins me from Brussels, talk us through this,
:10:46. > :10:52.quite a coup. Yes, certainly an audacious crime. It took a matter
:10:52. > :10:56.of minutes, officials say, where these robbers cut a hole in the
:10:56. > :11:01.perimeter security fence at the airport and drove two vehicles,
:11:01. > :11:05.believed to be a van and a car on to the tarmac where a Swiss
:11:05. > :11:09.passenger plane was getting ready to depart. A security van was
:11:09. > :11:14.loading it up with diamonds in the loading area, and these robbers got
:11:14. > :11:19.out of their vehicles, wearing masks, armoured, carrying guns, and
:11:19. > :11:24.they took those diamonds and loaded them up on to their vehicles. They
:11:24. > :11:29.did not fire any shots, no-one was injured, and they escaped the way
:11:29. > :11:33.they had come from, through the hole in the security fence. As you
:11:33. > :11:37.say, police later found a burnt-out van which is believed to have been
:11:37. > :11:41.used by the robbers. They are conducting tests on that as we
:11:41. > :11:47.speak, trying to find clues. One of the things is so extraordinary is
:11:47. > :11:51.that this is a country where the diamond trade is very deep rooted.
:11:51. > :11:58.People would have very standard security procedures, you would
:11:58. > :12:01.imagine, every time they go through this sort of routine. Yes, very
:12:01. > :12:05.heavy security would be expected. Of course, this is an international
:12:05. > :12:09.airport as well that hundreds of flights going in and out every day
:12:09. > :12:12.as well, so questions inevitably will be asked how they manage to
:12:12. > :12:17.get through the perimeter fence, how the robbers managed to be there
:12:17. > :12:22.for what was perhaps only around 10 minutes, but escaped with no
:12:22. > :12:26.security at the airport trying to intervene, no police trying to
:12:26. > :12:30.intervene. They do have CCTV footage, they will be going over
:12:30. > :12:35.that. They have the burnt-out van which they will be analysing. But
:12:35. > :12:40.police at the moment not really saying that much, still looking for
:12:40. > :12:45.clues as to how this could happen. Duncan, thanks very much.
:12:45. > :12:49.And thank you for watching here on BBC World News. Coming up later in
:12:49. > :12:53.a programme, getting drunk, breaching curfews, misusing
:12:53. > :12:54.prescription drugs even, this is the damning report into the
:12:54. > :13:04.behaviour of the Australian swimming team at the London
:13:04. > :13:07.
:13:07. > :13:11.Now, you may not have noticed, but the universe is moving faster than
:13:11. > :13:14.expected. Scientists are struggling to explain why the galaxies are
:13:14. > :13:18.rotating at speed and planets are flying apart more quickly than they
:13:18. > :13:22.should. Well, a team from America is going to use the Hubble
:13:22. > :13:25.telescope to investigate what is called dark energy, and the results
:13:26. > :13:30.could lead to a rewriting of the theories of physics that we have
:13:30. > :13:35.depended on for the past century. Pallab Ghosh reports.
:13:35. > :13:39.The world around us is made of atoms. They link up to form the
:13:39. > :13:43.buildings we see, the water that flows, and all life on the planet.
:13:43. > :13:47.But scientists have discovered that up in space there is something else
:13:47. > :13:51.out there that makes up most of the universe, a force that was present
:13:51. > :13:55.at the beginning of time. After the big bang, the current theory of
:13:55. > :14:00.physics suggests that these expansion of the others would slow
:14:00. > :14:03.down and then contract and there the force of gravity. -- the
:14:03. > :14:08.expansion of the universe. Instead, galaxies seemed to be flying apart
:14:08. > :14:13.faster than ever before. Scientists believe that this force is called
:14:13. > :14:17.dark energy and accounts for nearly two-thirds of the universe. This
:14:17. > :14:20.acceleration defies all the current theories of physics. Scientists
:14:21. > :14:26.want to know where the seemingly endless energy that is driving the
:14:26. > :14:30.universe apart is coming from. They are now using the Hubble space
:14:30. > :14:35.telescope to find out. It will be measuring precisely how fast
:14:35. > :14:39.galaxies are accelerating away from us. One of the researchers involved
:14:39. > :14:43.in the project told me that the results may show that the universe
:14:43. > :14:47.would continue to accelerate apart forever. The bigger it gets, the
:14:47. > :14:52.faster it will go, and that will be a universe that just expands and
:14:52. > :14:57.expands forever. The piece of the universe that we get to see will
:14:57. > :15:02.have fewer and fewer galaxies in it. It will be a dark, lonely, cold
:15:02. > :15:06.place 100 billion years from now. The mystery of dark energy is
:15:06. > :15:09.arguably the most important puzzle of our time. The solution will
:15:09. > :15:19.rewrite the theories of modern physics and change our own notion
:15:19. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:35.It's believed the military plane was on a training flight when it
:15:35. > :15:37.came down in the the al-Qadissiya district of Sanaa, not far from the
:15:37. > :15:40.central market place. Reports say the plane crashed into two houses,
:15:40. > :15:50.injuring dozens of people. Rescuers are still searching the rubble for
:15:50. > :15:54.
:15:54. > :15:57.survivors. This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: the South
:15:57. > :16:04.African athlete, Oscar Pistorius is formally charged with the pre-
:16:04. > :16:14.meditated murder of his girlfriend. Mourners at turns the funeral of
:16:14. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:18.Reeva Steenkamp in Port Elizabeth. A report into the poor performance
:16:18. > :16:21.of Australia's swimmers at the London Olympics has described the
:16:21. > :16:23.team culture as toxic. The review, commissioned by Swimming Australia
:16:23. > :16:25.said bad behaviour by team members, including getting drunk, breaching
:16:25. > :16:28.curfews and misusing prescription drugs, went unchecked.
:16:28. > :16:34.Here's what the team's head coach, Leigh Nugent, had to say in
:16:34. > :16:40.response to the report. It is a pretty emotive word, toxic.
:16:40. > :16:50.I'm not sure what that means. The overall issues were not over the
:16:50. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:54.obvious, what eyesore. We will be addressing all those issues now.
:16:54. > :16:57.BBC Sport's Karthi Gnanasegarum followed one of the Australian
:16:57. > :17:00.Olympic swimmers, Emily Seebohm, in the run up to the Olympics. Emily
:17:00. > :17:03.was one of Australia's high hopes for several gold medals in the 2012
:17:03. > :17:05.Games, and broke down in tears of disappointment when she won Silver
:17:05. > :17:08.in the 100m backstroke. It is interesting knowing she got a
:17:08. > :17:13.gold medal and two silver medals. She was very disappointed. It is
:17:13. > :17:19.one of the best performance of any of the Australian swimmers. It is
:17:19. > :17:23.the one gold medal in swimming they got. When she got to her individual
:17:23. > :17:27.part of the tournament, she got a silver medal in the backstroke and
:17:27. > :17:31.was very disappointed. In the first interview when you come out of the
:17:31. > :17:35.pool, she was incredibly disappointed and cried at that
:17:35. > :17:40.point. Speaking to her during the Olympics, several times, there was
:17:40. > :17:45.a sense of discipline and, despite a what someone would describe as
:17:45. > :17:51.being a very good individual results. It did you get any idea
:17:51. > :17:58.about the broader cam? One of the swimmers describe it as a lonely
:17:58. > :18:03.Olympics. Some of them felt cut adrift. My dealings with the
:18:03. > :18:08.Swimming Association of Australia changed. When they did not get the
:18:08. > :18:15.medals they expected at the start, it got more difficult to do with
:18:15. > :18:20.the press office. None of the swimmers were allowed to leave and
:18:20. > :18:26.do any interviews until everybody had finished. They were not allowed
:18:26. > :18:30.to leave the village and do any interviews with the BBC until
:18:30. > :18:34.everybody had finished their events. Swimming is at the beginning of the
:18:34. > :18:38.Olympics, and it you don't get that momentum at the beginning,
:18:38. > :18:44.Australia did not get the gold medals they were expecting. There
:18:44. > :18:47.is a lot of pressure. Everybody is outside playing sport and swimming,
:18:47. > :18:52.because that is what the environment is like over there.
:18:52. > :18:56.They do have a lot of pressure to compete. It is something the nation
:18:56. > :19:01.expects, especially at the Sydney 2000, when they were so successful,
:19:01. > :19:11.it comes as a real shock 12 years later. They are having a big Downer
:19:11. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:14.at the moment, Down Under. The conflict in Syria is becoming
:19:14. > :19:16.increasingly violent, militarised and sectarian, according to a
:19:16. > :19:19.United Nations report. It's accusing both pro and anti-
:19:19. > :19:22.government forces of committing war crimes and it's calling for tighter
:19:22. > :19:25.controls on the supply of weapons. The European Union has extended its
:19:25. > :19:34.arms embargo against Syria for a further three months, but it's
:19:34. > :19:40.promising more aid to protect civilians. The BBC's Tom Donkin
:19:40. > :19:44.reports. This greater is on verified in
:19:44. > :19:50.footage as a Scud missile attack in a leopard. This conflict has been
:19:50. > :19:56.played out in videos uploaded to social Media website since it began.
:19:56. > :20:00.Establishment -- establishing the veracity of the videos is not
:20:00. > :20:05.always straightforward, but it is clear this is intensifying. More
:20:05. > :20:12.amateur footage, said to be of an air strike in a suburb in Damascus.
:20:13. > :20:22.The power imbalance between the two sides has led to calls from Britain,
:20:22. > :20:25.for the fighting President, a she'll to step down. Sanctions have
:20:25. > :20:31.been extended again Syria for another three months and amended
:20:31. > :20:35.the arms embargo to allow greater, non-lethal support and technical
:20:35. > :20:39.assistance to the opposition and Britain welcome that as a step in
:20:39. > :20:45.the right direction. This is an important change. It shows we can
:20:45. > :20:50.change the arms embargo. The worse the situation becomes, the more we
:20:50. > :20:54.can change it. It will be reviewed again in three months. It
:20:54. > :20:59.establishes an important precedent. As Syria was that subject of a
:20:59. > :21:09.meeting in Geneva. A report says the civil war is becoming
:21:09. > :21:14.increasingly sectarian and violent. Crimes continuing to be committed
:21:14. > :21:19.in Syria. The number of victims are increasing. Justice must be done.
:21:19. > :21:24.The plight of those caught up in the conflict is also deteriorating.
:21:24. > :21:28.At the border with Jordan, Jordanian soldiers tap refugees
:21:28. > :21:32.fleeing the bloodshed. For these people, and many more like them,
:21:32. > :21:40.the latest international efforts to tackle the crisis in Syria are too
:21:40. > :21:44.little, too late. We are getting reports from Syria
:21:44. > :21:51.that eight people have died in a rock'n'roll -- rocket attack in
:21:51. > :21:56.Aleppo. Those reports coming from Syrian opposition activists. They
:21:56. > :22:06.say another 25 people are missing. It has seen some of the fiercest
:22:06. > :22:08.
:22:08. > :22:11.fighting during the uprising. There's been a surge in violence in
:22:11. > :22:14.Thailand following the deaths last week of 16 Islamist militants.
:22:14. > :22:17.They were killed as they attacked a Thai military base on Wednesday. It
:22:17. > :22:19.was the largest loss of life the separatist movement has suffered
:22:19. > :22:23.since it re-started its campaign for an independent Islamic state
:22:23. > :22:29.nine years ago. I must warn you there are some disturbing images in
:22:29. > :22:34.Jonathan Head's report. This is a land of fear, not smiles.
:22:34. > :22:38.60,000 Tyne and soldiers trapped in a decade-long war of attrition with
:22:38. > :22:44.insurgents who lived all around them, but are rarely seen. Last
:22:44. > :22:52.week, the masks slip. The failed attack on a Thailand Marine base
:22:52. > :22:55.left 60 militants dead. Their bodies strewn. No movement, no
:22:55. > :23:00.longer faceless. Three of them live next door to each other, just a
:23:00. > :23:06.short drive away from the base. A procession of friends and relatives
:23:06. > :23:11.arrived the following day to console the families. Martin has
:23:11. > :23:15.been left with three young daughters to look after. She knew
:23:15. > :23:21.her husband was a wanted man. He stayed away and the army often
:23:21. > :23:25.searched her home. Her feelings are mixed. She misses him, she says.
:23:25. > :23:32.This man told me he was proud his son had died fighting for his
:23:32. > :23:37.beliefs. So, would he let any of his six surviving sons join him and
:23:37. > :23:43.joined the insurgents? I tried to stop them, he said. But they don't
:23:43. > :23:48.always listen to me. The dead men were buried as martyrs to the cause
:23:48. > :23:53.of an independent Islamic state. There was no emotion. Neighbours
:23:53. > :23:57.seemed to accept that their deaths as a fitting end. The commander of
:23:57. > :24:02.the raid was this man, a 30-year- old man with multiple arrest
:24:02. > :24:08.warrants and the price on his head. But admired in his own community.
:24:08. > :24:16.His widow grieves that her young son will never know his father. She
:24:16. > :24:20.is adamant his death was worth it, his cause was a noble one. How many
:24:20. > :24:25.others in this troubled region of time and feel the same? People do
:24:25. > :24:29.not speak openly, but sympathy for the insurgents is certainly strong.
:24:29. > :24:34.This failed attack may look like a victory for the authorities, but
:24:34. > :24:38.they cannot break the powerful hold the insurgency has on so many young
:24:38. > :24:44.Muslim men in this region, north or all of the defensive measures they
:24:44. > :24:50.are taking, can they protect those the insurgency targets. This is,
:24:50. > :24:53.believe it or not, a primary school. Government schools are seen as
:24:53. > :24:59.legitimate targets by the insurgents. Last month, they killed
:24:59. > :25:03.a teacher here in front of the children. Running this school takes
:25:03. > :25:09.particular courage and dedication. Four of its teachers have already
:25:09. > :25:13.asked to be transferred. TRANSLATION: We're all afraid. We
:25:13. > :25:17.are afraid as soon as we leave the house. We do not know what we will
:25:17. > :25:21.face on the road. We have the soldiers here to protect us and we
:25:21. > :25:27.feel a bit safer. The soldiers keep doing what they had done for the
:25:27. > :25:37.past 10 years, patrolling and hunting for an enemy which is every
:25:37. > :25:39.
:25:39. > :25:42.were and there were. -- everywhere and nowhere.
:25:42. > :25:45.Italians will vote in a general election this coming Sunday and
:25:45. > :25:47.Monday, and there's a lot at stake. The third-largest economy in the
:25:47. > :25:50.Eurozone is deep in recession. Voters will have to choose between
:25:50. > :25:58.more of the same, or Silvio Berlusconi's promise to relax
:25:58. > :26:05.austerity policies. The former Italian Prime Minister says whoever
:26:05. > :26:09.wins this election must tackle bureaucracy and corruption. The
:26:09. > :26:12.election is due on Sunday and Monday. It is two weeks since the
:26:12. > :26:17.last polls were out which suggested it could be difficult for anyone to
:26:17. > :26:23.win a clear majority in the course of the elections.
:26:23. > :26:28.Let me bring you up-to-date on the main story: it revolves around
:26:28. > :26:33.Oscar Pistorius. He is in court again, at the magistrates' court,
:26:33. > :26:39.where there is a bail application being heard. He is charged with
:26:39. > :26:44.murder, premeditated murder to use the correct phrase, of his
:26:44. > :26:49.girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who died on Thursday. Her funeral has
:26:49. > :26:54.been taking place at precisely the same time in Port Elizabeth.